country resources

Books:

• The Open Veins of Latin America - Eduardo Galeano

• Imperialism, Neoliberalism, and Social Struggles in Latin America - Richard Dello Buono and José Bell Lara

• Sin Patrón - lavaca collective

• De Colores Means All of Us - Elizabeth Martínez

• How Coffee Saved My Life: And Other Stories of Stumbling to Grace - Ellie Roscher

• Motorcycle Diaries - Che Guevara

• My Name is Light - Elsa Osorio

• In the Company of the Poor - Paul Farmer

• Departing at Dawn - Gloria Lise

• Cantoras - Carolina de Robertis

• And the Money Kept Rolling In - Paul Blustein

• The Invisible Mountain - Carolina de Robertis

• The Purple Land - William Henry Hudson

• Labor Conflict and Capitalist Hegemony in Argentina - Agustin Santella

• Crisis and Contradiction - Susan Spronk and Jeffrey Webber

• Workers' Self-Management in Argentina - Marcelo Vieta

• Co-Operative Struggles - Denis Kasparian

• Struggle Makes Us Human - Vijay Prashad

• Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age - Colin Barker, Gareth Dale, and Neil Davidson

• Passion of the People? Football in South America - Tony Mason

• They Can't represent Us! - Marina Sitrin & Dario Azzellini

• Contours of Descent - Robert Pollin

• Jorge Luis Borges: A Writer on the Edge - Beatriz Sarlo

• Che Wants to See You: The Untold Story of Che Guevara - Ciro Bustos

• In the Shadow of the State - Nicola Miller

• Radical Cities - Justin McGuirk

• Feminist International - Verónica Gago

• Artificial Hells - Claire Bishop

• Argentina: The Malvinas and the End of Military Rule - Alejandro Dabat and Luis Lorenzano

Articles/Other Reading:

• Stations Of The Cross - Perez Esquivel

Songs:

• Me Gritaron Negra song by Victoria Santa Cruz

Videos:

• La Granja de Zenón  (YouTube channel with Argentine children's songs)

• Fe en la Resistencia – Uruguayan documentary, 2018, role of church in the dictatorship

• The Dirty War: The Horrors of the Argentine Dictatorship

• How Does Uruguay Exist?

Movies:

• Argentina, 1985 (2022) - Available on Prime

• Our Disappeared / Nuestros Desparecidos - Available on Vimeo

Podcasts:

Rock & Dios Podcast  Podcast by the IELU in Spotify

Argentina: Life with hyperinflation - The Documentary: BBC News World Service

Argentalk: Learn Argentine Spanish in context

La última copa/The Last Cup - NPR

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Media:

Podcasts:

Of note: We refer to the Roma people as Roma or Romani, as 'gypsy' is considered a derogatory slur in many languages and contexts around the world. We have included books that may or may not follow the same pattern of thinking as many Romani people refer to themselves as such in a form of reclamation.

Books

• Skylark - Dezső Kosztolányi

• The Bridge at Andau - James Michener

• Bury Me Standing - Isabel Fonseca

• Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, and Friends - Lonnie Johnson

• We are the Romani People - Ian Hancock

• Fatelessness - Imre Kertész

• Prague - Arthur Phillips

• Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories - Isaac Bashevis Singer

• The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth

• Cinderella Goes to Market - Barbara Einhorn

• Bodies Under Siege - Sian Norris

• Gypsies: The Hidden Americans - Anne Sutherland

• The Gypsy 'Menace': Populism and the New Anti-Gypsy Politics - Michael Stewart

• New Soviet Gypsies - Brigid O'Keefe

• Romani Routes - Carol Silvermann

• Exploring Gypsiness - Ada Engebrigsten

• From the Vanguard to the Margins: Workers in Hungary, 1939 to Present - Mark Pittaway

• Confronting Reification - Gregory Smulewicz-Sucker

• The Russian Revolution - Otto Bauer

• The Hollow Girl - Hillary Monahan

• Roma Literature Archive

Media:

• Fateless

• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

• An American Rhapsody

• Music Box

• Kontroll

• Sunshine

• Time Stands Still

• Roma Film Archive

• Learn Hungarian in 20 Minutes

• The Austro-Hungarian Empire History in 10 Minutes

Other:

• Rachel & Zach blog posts

• YAGM Central Europe FB page

• Rachel & Zach blog posts (former country coordinators)

• YAGM Central Europe FB page

• European Network Against Racism

• European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture

• Romani Resources

• RomArchive

• A Romani & Traveller Alphabet

• Guide to Working with Romani Children

• Roma LGBTQ+ Spoken History Archive

• LGBTIQ Roma and queer intersectionalities: the lived experiences of LGBTIQ Roma

• The Queer Gypsy - Daniel Baker

• Romani, Sinte Language Map

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Books:

• Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique - Sa'ed Atshan

• The Lemon Tree - Sandy Tolan

• Faith in the Face of Empire - Mitri Raheb

• Mornings in Jenin - Susan Abulhawa

• After the Last Sky - Edward Said

• Stone Men - Andrew Ross

• Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Angela Davis

• Once Upon a Country - Sari Nusseibeh

• Religion and Empire - RA Horsley

• I Am a Palestinian Christian - Mitri Raheb

• The First Advent in Palestine: Reversals, Resistance, and the Ongoing Complexity of Hope - Kelley Nikondeha

• Religion and Empire - Richard Horsley

• On Palestine - Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé

• The Struggle for Palestine - Lance Selfa

• Before the Next Bomb - Remi Kanazi

• Rifqa - Mohammed el-Kurd

• False Prophets of Peace - Tivka Honig-Parnass

• On Anti-Semitism - Jewish Voice for Peace

• Gaza in Crisis - Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé

• Apartheid Israel - Jon Soske and Sean Jacobs

• Boycott Divestment Sanctions - Omar Barghouti

• Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward Said - David Barsamian

• The Battle for Justice in Palestine - Ali Abunimah

• The Invention of the Land of Israel - Schlomo Sand

• Ten Myths About Israel - Ilan Pappé

• Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation - Cate Malek and Mateo Hoke

• Twilight of History - Schlomo Sand

• Israel and Palestine - Avi Shlaim

• The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust: A Memoir - Noam Chayut

• Blaming the Victims - Edward Said and Christopher Hitchens

• The Balfour Declaration - Bernard Regan

• Return: A Palestinian Memoir - Ghada Karmi

• Erasing Palestine - Rebecca Ruth Gould

• Israel-Palestine on Record: How the New York Times Misreports Conflict in the Middle East

• A Child in Palestine - Naji al-Ali

• Shell-Shocked - Mohammed Omer

• The Other Side of the Wall: A Palestinian Christian Narrative of Lament and Hope - Munther Isaac

• Our Shared Witness by Munib Younan

• Witnessing for Peace by Munib Younan

ELCA Resources

• ELCA List of Resources

• Social Message on Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

• Arab & Middle Eastern Ministries

• Advent Pilgrimage in Palestine - Advent series in collaboration with ELCA Young Adults

• ELCA Advocacy Sign up

• Background on the Strategy for Engagement in Israel and Palestine

• Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel

• International prayer vigil

• Kairos Document

Media

• Ghost Hunting (2017)

• Divine Intervention (2002)

• A Drowning Man (2017)

• 5 Broken Cameras (2011)

• Budrus (2010)

• Israel vs. Israel (2010)

• The Israeli Lobby (2007)

• Life in Occupied Palestine (2009)

• With God on Our Side (2010)

• The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)

• Gaza Fights for Freedom (2019)

• Palestine as a Queer Struggle

• 3 Ways the Media Enables Racist Violence

• Noura Erakat on Black-Palestinian Solidarity and Palestine as a Progressive Issue

• Gaza mired in water crisis

• We're Not White

• Arab-American Comedian Amer Zahr

Other

• Palestine 101 course

• Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS)

• BDS toolkit

• BDS victories

• US Military Funding to Israel Map

• US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Resources

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Podcasts:

Books:

• The Devil’s Highway - Luis Alberto Urrea

• Enrique’s Journey - Sonia Nazario

• Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move - Reece Jones

• The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver

• We Built the Wall: How the US Keeps Out Asylum Seekers from Mexico, Central America and Beyond - Eileen Truax

• Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal - Aviva Chomsky

• Separated: Inside an American Tragedy - Jacob Soboroff

• The God Who Sees - Karen Gonzalez

• Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen - Jose Antonio Vargas

• The Land of Open Graves - Jason De Leon

• Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

• The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros

• The Hummingbird’s Daughter - Luis Alberto Urrea

• The Labyrinth of Solitude - Octavio Paz

• Mexico: Biography of Power - Enrique Krauze

• The Fire & The Word: A History of the Zapatista Movement - Gloria Muñoz Ramirez

Media:

• The Book of Life (2014)

• Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)

• Frida (2002)

• Roma (2018)

• Ingobernable (Netflix series)

• How the US Fuels Mexican Cartel Violence

• Life in the Deportee Slums of Mexico

• The dark history of "gasoline baths" at the border

• How the US outsourced border security to Mexico

• The wall of eyes trained on the US - Mexico border

• The ancient city designed to track time

• America's cocaine habit fueled its migrant crisis

• Why seeking asylum in America is so difficult

• Video on bioconstruction in Tlaxcala

• Inside the Americas - Casa Tochan

• Video on IMUMI

• How Do You Qualify for Asylum in the United States?

• History of Mexico Explained in 14 Minutes

• The Nahautl Channel

Podcasts:

Behind the Bastards: The Complete, Insane History of American Border Militias

Behind the Bastards: The U.S. Border Patrol is A Nightmare That Never Ends

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Books

• African Friends and Money Matters -  David Maranz (West Africa)

• Extracting Profit - Lee Wengraf

• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney

• Fisherman's Blues - Anna Badkhen

• God's Bits of Wood - Ousmane Sembène (Senegal) 

• So Long a Letter - Mariama Bâ (Senegal)

• Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi (Ghana)

• Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)

• We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)

• Under the Udala Trees - Chinelo Okparanta (Nigeria)

• Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyemi

• Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)

• African and Caribbean Politics: From Kwame Nkruamah to Maurice Bishop - Manning Marable

• Class Struggle and Resistance in Africa - Leo Zeilig

• At Night All Blood is Black - David Diop (Senegal)

• Your Pocket is What Cures You: The Politics of Health in Senegal - Ellen Foley (Senegal)

• Women at the Crossroads - M. Lewis Renaud (Senegal)

• The Abandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman - Ken Bugul (Senegal)

• Peace is Everything: World view of Muslims in the Senegambia - David Maranz (Senegal/Gambia)

• Learning to See: And Other Stories and Memoirs from Senegal (Gary Engelberg)

Media:

• Senegal's Cheerful Reawakening From Colonialism

• The Guards of the River Senegal

• The Slave Island, Gorée Senegal

• SENEGAL (Documentary, Discovery, History)

• Africa...States of Independence - Senegal

• YAGM alumni experience in Senegal

• YAGM 2020 Senegal Presentation

• ELCA YAGM, Senegal 2016 - 19

• Arcoecology is bearing fruit in Senegal

• Climate ravage: Sea swallows parts of Senegal's UNESCO World Heritage site

• Learn Wolof

Music

• Baaba Maal

• Youssou N'Dour

• Wally Seck

• Akon

• Viviane Chidid

Podcasts

• Joko hosted by Arame Niang and Aida Guisse

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Books:

• The Heart of Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain - Beverly Bryan, Stella Dadzie, et al.

• Hostile Environment - Maya Goodfellow

• The New Enclosure - Brett Christophers

• Dreams of Leaving and Remaining - James Meek

• Deport, Deprive, Extradite - Nisha Kapoor

• Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing - John Boughton

• Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent - Priyamvada Gopal

• The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain - Ron Ramdin

• To Govern the Globe - Alfred W. McCoy

• Black and British: A Forgotten History - David Olusoga

• Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India - Shashi Tharoor

• Britain BC - Francis Pryor

• Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine - Gail Honeyman

• Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

• A History of Britain - Simon Schama

• Britain and the Sea - Glen O'Hara

• Lost Lives - David McKittrick

• Making Sense of the Troubles - David McKittrick and David McVea

• Pauperland: A Short History of Poverty in Britain - Jeremy Seabrook

• Reform, Revolution, and Direct Action amongst British Miners - Martyn Ives

• The New Left: National Identity and the Break-Up of Britain - Wade Matthews

• Rentier Capitalism - Brett Christophers

• Falling Down - Phil Burton-Cartledge

• The Break-Up of Britain - Tom Nairn

• A New Labour Nightmare - Andrew Murray

• The Muslims Are Coming - Arun Kundnani

• Dispatches from the Dark Side - Gareth Peirce

• Not One More Death - Brain Eno et al

• Making the Revolution Global - Theo Williams

• We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire - Ian Sanjay Patel

• Imperial Intimacies - Hazel V. Carby

• The Fall and Rise of the British Left - Andrew Murray

• Dreamers of a New Day - Sheila Rowbotham

• Off the Rails - Andrew Murray

• United Queerdom - Dan Glass

• Good As You - From Prejudice to Pride: 30 Years of Gay Britain - Paul Flynn

Podcasts:

Behind the Bastards: That Time Britain Did a Genocide in Ireland

The British History Podcast

On the frontline of Brexit - BBC News

History of Scotland Podcast

Media:

The British Museum is full of stolen artifacts

The British Empire: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Details of The World's Largest Empire

Rise and Fall of the British Empire Documentary

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